What is a girl to do? Ebony is the last sister of her litter to find her mate. It’s difficult when you’re a forest ranger in the depths of a provincial forest to find a mate. Her station’s been vandalized while she’s away visiting family. Video evidence proves a wolf did the damage. She knows the shifter’s male, because no mundane wolf is that size or can open a can of soda and leave it on a table. She gets news the next morning. Three new rangers are headed her way. She’s got six weeks to get them acclimated to the job and location. What is she to do? Three new rangers, and an unknown number of rogue wolf shifters in her domain? It’s a recipe for disaster. What she doesn’t expect is the rangers are the rogue wolves, and they have designs on her, not her domain. Benedict, Franco, and Peter. They do everything together. They work, live, and love together. They aren’t looking for their own mates. The one mate they are looking for is a red ranger wolf. How will Ebony deal with the knowledge there are three male wolves determined to share her charms for the rest of her days? Will she choose one? Or take them all? Does she have a choice? All while training them on the job. There are hot days and steamy nights in the forest where the shifters find their passion.
View More“Benedict, he doesn’t want to talk to me at all. I’m not somehow defective because I don’t have the right reproductive parts. We’re animals and not smart enough. We go around threatening to beat and kill complete strangers for no reason at all at random times. He’s given me no proof or even how many times this has happened. So, I don’t know who’s involved. Or if anyone’s involved. Or how many wolves might be involved? If he was in front of me, I might have torn him apart for the insult for the garbage he tried to pile on me. How dare he use that on me? Does he think calling me an animal I’ll consider an insult? Can he say he’s researched who we are? Because I’ll call him a liar if he does.” Ebony said to Benedict. She paced the bedroom floor and waved her arms, expressing her words as she spoke. “Enough Ebony, I can see he’s a jerk of a human. We’ll deal with him when the time’s right. For all we know he’s making things up. Or someone else is. You did rig
Ebony sat back at her desk as she waited for the human mayor to answer the call. “Hello, Mayor Fort, you called you called to speak the Alpha.” She struggled not to call the man Major Fart. She knew it’s not funny, but the man’s not either. “I know Alphas are men. So, why are you calling me?” Mayor Fort complained as if Ebony were causing him difficulty by being who she was. He meant it to offend her. She didn’t know how someone like him could gain his position if he treated others like this. Ebony didn’t understand humans like this. “That’s what bothers you? Look, we send the person who’s best suited with the best skills. Each Pack has two leaders. You are lucky and have the rare luck of having the female leader, me, the Luna as the better skilled. You can call me Luna Ebony.” She’d used this type of talk with visitors to the park who weren’t comfortable with a park ranger guide who was female. Now she was happy to have developed this skil
This morning the excitement met chaos as wolves moved from camps to finished buildings. Everyone hurried in a different direction. Some helped each other to move large crates and boxes. Pups ran this way and carried what they could. Most were happy, but others were showing signs of stress as they tried to make sense and order of the chaos. Ebony watched for a moment, and she realized these were hers and they were still getting to know each other. That’s why there were wolves annoyed with all of this. They were getting accustomed with each other’s emotional states and personalities. “No one’s thrown any punches. Claws? Or bitten each other?” Ebony asked Jade, her new Beta. Jade stood beside Ebony poking at a tablet that she juggled with a clipboard. “Surprisingly, none that I know of. Though we do have several noses out of joint and a few new den mates ready to call it quits.” She gave Ebony a side-eyed look that telegraphed e
Ebony finally had the four relenting and accepting that they were the ones who would have to change. That the obsession was not going to gain her anything but disappointment and unhappiness. That she would not find pity or support. Nor would she find any satisfaction in gaining what she wanted. When Ebony pointed out if she gained what she wanted it wouldn’t be what she expected over the long-term. It didn’t matter if she believed in fated mates or not. What she wanted was a path toward unending misery. The promise that following the fated mate path or staying single were the only paths available to her that may hold a glimmer of happiness for her. But either option carried a long road of work on her social manners and actions. If Ebony thought, she was tired before this encounter. She was exhausted by now. But as she lay on the sofa in the trailer they were using as their temporary residence. Ebony wondered if this was wha
“I don’t know what to do with you. Any of you. Why is this so difficult for you? Can you explain to me why you want a male who doesn’t want you and not the one that wants you? It doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t want you now and it won’t change. If he feels anything kind toward you it will change to something horrible. It will sour and turn dark, nasty. Hateful, even. That’s not something anyone wants to live with. No one wants that within their Pack, I can only do so much before I am forced to push everyone involved out of the Pack. Is that what you want? All four of you without a Pack?” Ebony hated saying this. She knew that she must get her to understand that her actions hurt more than herself. She didn’t just embarrass herself. She risked her position here and theirs. Something that none of them expected by the look of their pale faces. “All of us? But she’s the one who’s trying to break us up Luna. Why would we be punished?”
Ebony watched another truck of gravel move down the trail. She’d lost track of how many that was today alone. They were using it for so many things right now that it had become a mountain of gravel within one of the meadows. An eye sore for everyone. But Benedict promised that by the end of the next week it would be gone from the meadow. She had several cabins that she must inspect. Later today they would start adding the electrical and solar panels. Along with the water and heating. They’d lay down for the human and supernatural internets. Satellite television, and mobile telephone. Supernatural creatures had their own private cellphone providers because of how some have a habit of listening into their calls. Or insisting that they explain why they need to buy ten phones at a time. “Okay, let’s see what’s next. Leo, make sure when they’re done, they leave the way they came. We don’t want them tearing up any of the ground unnecessarily. I w
Benedict went back to work knowing he was going to be a father. A father. What did he know about being a father? He had months to learn about what it would take to be a decent father. Oh, he knew what it took to be a useless parent who did more damage than good. Now, he sat with many of his Pack members after having had a long day of building and arranging their territory into something they could use moving forward as a Pack. Every day he could see them take a step closer to it becoming a reality. Not just the physical space, but the relationships and such. There were bumps in the road and disputes. Ebony and he both needed to smooth over some interesting rough patches. Now he sat there watching three young wolves talking. It wasn’t perfect and he expected there to be fireworks from them still, but this was progress. He knew a second male wolf was needed for that dynamic because the male wasn’t interested in having two females. That was hi
“You want to wait and see which one of our pups would have the best skills and the interest to lead. But what do we do if we have more than one who wish to lead?” “That’s the thing Benedict. I’ve been thinking about this. We need three alpha pups at the very least. We have the Pack that will need an Alpha. The school will need another Alpha. Then there’s the Rescue Teams. It will need one Alpha to manage it. I’m not sure if we’ll use an Alpha per team or a Beta to head per team. I think a Beta per team would make more sense. But think about that. That’s three Alphas. Three pups minimum needed.” “Will we have enough territory for that many Alphas? Can we keep three full grown adult Alphas in close quarters all the time without them ready to kill each other?” “That’s what we must figure out a solution for that right now. We need to figure out how much territory we need and raise our pups to accept each other within their terri
Ebony called him for dinner, and he’d sauntered in. Relaxed and hungry Benedict entered the dining room. “You didn’t come out did you find a problem? If you did, why didn’t you come out and get me? I could have helped you with it.” “Well, it might be a problem at times. But it’s not a problem per say right now. At least, I’m not sure how you’ll see it right now. It took some time for me to confirm my suspicion and then verify that its confirmation wasn’t a false confirmation. After that, I needed to wrap my head around it all. Now, well, it’s your turn to decide if this is a good thing or a problem.” Ebony looked at Benedict and she appeared almost apologetic. Benedict frowned and looked at the table. “What are you talking about love? What are you talking about exactly?” Ebony used her chin to point toward the table “Just take a look and try not to freak out too much.” “Okay …” Benedict wasn’t sure what had Ebony so anxious.
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